KHARKIV UNDERGROUND

(1) Kharkiv was the sixth city in the CIS and the second in Ukraine to have a metro. At the beginning of the 60s the transportation problem in Kharkiv became very acute. The surface transport couldn’t cope with growing passenger turnover. The situation was complicated by the relief of the city, its narrow central streets and large-scale construction of new residential areas in the outskirts of Kharkiv. The only way out was the construction of the Kharkiv Metropolitan system.

(2) There were two variants under consideration: the ordinary underground only for urban transportation and the other variant, which would provide for the possibility for metro trains to come out to suburban railway sections. No matter how promising the second project seemed, it would have required a new rolling stock, longer platforms and tunnels of greater diameter while the construction technologies didn’t allow doing this.

(3) In August 1975 the first section of Kharkiv underground was put into operation. While constructing the underground a number of developments and innovations were applied. On Saltovskaya line the first in the former USSR experimental metro bridge of original construction was built over the river Kharkiv. It was a closed type bridge, 336 metres in length, which connected Barabashova and Kievskaya stations. In the centre of the city the underground line crossed the Kharkiv and the Lopan rivers and ran under the railroad tracks of Southern railway.

(4) In 2005 the city celebrated the 30^th anniversary of its underground. On the eve of this anniversary the city got the long-expected present – two new stations – Botanical Garden and The 23^rd of August.

Nowadays, Kharkiv underground has three autonomous lines, almost 40km in length, with 26 stations. These lines cross in three change stations. Annually, the underground handles 250 million passengers. It is equipped with the latest machinery and has a perfect air-conditioning system, which makes the Kharkiv underground one of the most reliable and convenient underground systems in Ukraine.

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